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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • January 11, 2003
    By Mikko Välimäki

    ``Times have changed. Evidence shows that Red Hat is no longer 'The Open Source company.' We have seen how Open Source as a business is much more than Linux. We have learned that Open Source is a multidimensional thing. Right at this moment, lessons from collaborative development and free distribution are being adopted into mainstream software business models.

    ``Look at Scandinavia. Go to MySQL and Trolltech. Check their licensing pages and consider: They are both open and closed. They offer products for free and they sell them, just as Microsoft does. This is called dual licensing [the cathedral in the bazaar]. What's more, it works.''

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    http://www.open-mag.com/1043683279.htm

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